Felons Need Not Apply

DEA cannabis rules are colliding with state programs built around second chances. In Mississippi, two dispensary workers with old controlled-substance felony records became a federal compliance problem when their employer sought Schedule III registration. Pot Culture Magazine follows the waiver rules, the social-equity contradiction, and the question legalization still has not answered: when does a drug-war record stop controlling a legal cannabis job?

Keep the Weed Kill the Retail

Massachusetts Question 8 would end recreational cannabis sales, repeal adult home-grow protections, and leave limited possession legal. Pot Culture Magazine follows the weed, the jobs, the tax revenue, and the consumers caught in the middle, asking the question the repeal campaign cannot escape: if Massachusetts kills the legal retail market, who supplies the cannabis that adults may still possess?

Houston Let the Weed Arrests Come Back

Houston says low-level marijuana is not a police priority, but HPD records reportedly show misdemeanor marijuana arrests jumping from 29 to 405 in the same eight-month period. As voters prepare to decide the Houston Freedom Act on November 3, the city owes the public more than a slogan about priorities.

YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS SHIT UP: Operation Constant Gardener

Filed Under: Drug War, Built for Television Seven deputies entered a Kansas family’s home and searched it for more than two hours. What sent them there was stranger than anything they found. It was a chilly April morning in Leawood, Kansas, an affluent suburb of Kansas City, when seven Johnson County sheriff’s deputies converged on... Continue Reading →

Legal to Hold. Nowhere Legal to Buy.

Massachusetts Question 8 would close adult-use cannabis stores, cut the penalty-free possession limit back to one ounce, preserve medical cannabis, and leave consumer demand behind. Pot Culture Magazine examines the legal trap, the $1.65 billion adult-use market, polling, tax consequences, campaign money, and the question repeal supporters still have to answer.

Cannabis Lies Vol. 22: The Tax Revenue Lie

Pot Culture Magazine’s Cannabis Lies series takes on the Tax Revenue Lie: cannabis tax revenue is real, but states use the number to make legalization look finished. From Illinois repair programs and California budget shifts to Colorado school funding and Michigan roads, it shows why public revenue is not drug-war repayment.

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